Gene Gendel is an organizational design consultant, adaptive & lean coach and trainer, and independent adviser to senior leadership. Gene is a widely recognized, world-class trainer/instructor, and is mainly focused on organizational design and product centricity, the experience for which he has gained, over the decades of deeply embedded coaching and consulting. Gene’s clients represent a wide industry spectrum. Almost 15 of 20+ years of his professional experience Gene has dedicated to working with companies of various sizes and lines of business, trying to help them improve internal dynamics, organizational structure and becoming a better place for people to work in. Gene engages at all organizational levels: senior- and mid-level management, teams and individuals. In his work, Gene uses various methods, tools and techniques to amplify learning of other people and to ensure that his followers gain autonomy after Gene “coaches himself out of the job”. Over the last decade, Gene’s big focus has been on large financial institutions and consulting companies that struggle with moving away, from traditional budgets and portfolio/program/project work decomposition, towards more adaptive/flexible budgeting and better clearly products (product-centric, customer-focused development).
Gene is the co-founder of KSTS Consulting, the only company in the United States that has the credential of a Certified LeSS Coaching Company. Gene’s, highly in-demand LeSS classes, both private and public, are based on advanced system modelling and rich exosystemic perspective that includes intra-organizational dynamics and market realities.
Credentials of Gene Gendel and KSTS Consulting:








Publications:
Gene is also well-recognized blogger and publisher:
- Adaptive Ecosystems: Collection of Essays About Agility
- Agile Coaching: Wisdom from Practitioners (free pdf)
- Best Agile Articles of 2017, 2018 , 2019 and 2020
Focus of Work:
- Organizational/System design
- Enterprise-wide, scaling agile solutions and frameworks
- Promoting System over Local Optimization
- Moving companies away from Skinnerian Behaviorism
- Converting Taylorian Corporate Culture to Kaizen
- Educating about Motivation/Rewards/Incentives
- Adaptive (Agile) Product Ownership and Management
- Adaptive (Agile)/Flexible Budgeting and Rolling Forecasts
- Coaching sr. leadership, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Teams
- Implementing Agile frameworks: Scrum, Kanban
- Mentor to Coaches
Professional Resume:
Resume | Services | Resume + Cover Letter | Resume + Services | Bio + R&R + Resume+ Services
Product Coach Resume | Product Manager/Owner Resume | Comprehensive Chron Resume
Frequently Used References:
- Public profiles: LinkedIn, ScrumAlliance, LeSS.works
- Google Search
- Personal Profile: One-Page Bio, One-Page-Resume
- One-Page Services Summary
- Top-3 Case Studies
- Individual Engagement Proposal
- Partners’ Engagement Proposal-1
- Partners’ Engagement Proposal-2
- logo-image, logo-pdf, KSTS_LeSS_banner, KSTS_GG_LeSS_banner, stationary
- High resolution head-shot
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